Cool Design & Photoshop Downloads

Since starting at NewCity, I’ve found or been introduced to some cool designery resources. I figured I could share them with you!

I love this deviantArt brush, which mimics drawing with expensive Copic markers. And on the Cintiq at my last job, I fell in love with Kyle T Webster‘s high-quality Photoshop brushes – and I’m not even a real artist! They do a great job of emulating real media for a great price.

And speaking of free Photoshop resources, I love this pattern pack of pixel patterns. They’re more geometric and I tend to go to them more often than SubtlePatterns.com, perhaps because I can adjust their subtlety in Photoshop myself.

Looking to create custom grids at the click of a button in Photoshop? GuideGuide is a free Photoshop plugin perfect for building something a little more interesting than the standard 960gs.

The League of Movable Type is a club for type designers to release free high-quality typefaces – great for web design! Check out League Gothic in particular. ;) And their family Raleway is so beloved by our creative director here at NewCity that we can’t get him to stop putting it in comps!

Raleway‘s a nice typeface, though I wish it had italic version. It would probably be a good one for things like engineering presentations, although remember it probably won’t work for presentations on other people’s computers! Check out NewCity‘s website for some nice usage.

Bio

The name's Ellen Rockett. I'm a digital designer and I strive to be unique at every chance. I'm an acknowledged lover of geek things.

I started this blog in 2009 to document my time studying at the Bauhaus in Germany, and it's kept going since then: I feature my projects and document my daily life, travel, and photography excursions.